His father, Woody Guthrie, died of Huntington’s Disease, a hereditary thing. When I first knew about Arlo Guthrie (back in the “Alice’s Restaurant” days) he was hanging under this sword of Damocles. Someone told me his odds were 50-50 (don’t know if that’s accurate).
It tickles the hell out of me to see him as a healthy old fart, still singing. Sometimes you win one.
It also tickles me that he’s a registered Republican, although to be fair, from the Ron Paul libertarian wing. All the real hippies were libertarians.
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Fearing the authorities doesn't make you a libertarian. Or maybe it does? Is that the common thread?
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Libertarians are anarchists with property.
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WorldCom, Enron, Madoff, etc., make fools of them every day, and they still think they've got it figured.
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WorldCom, Enron, Madoff, etc., make fools of them every day, and they still think they've got it figured.
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Libertarians are anarchists with property.
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Woody Guthrie: "Notwithstanding Guthrie's later claim that "the best thing that I did in 1936 was to sign up ...
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"This Machine Kills Fascists"
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I was talking about Arlo, not Woody.
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Well, you did say "all the real hippies", which gave me a bit of an opening.
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Well, you did say "all the real hippies", which gave me a bit of an opening.
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"This Machine Kills Fascists"
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:)